AMD A8-9600 vs Intel Pentium G4520

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 4 core CPU vs Intel Pentium G Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 13.10
$ 271.90 significantly less expensive
$ 285.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1435 points
1% slightly better overall score
1414 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2697 points
2950 points
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1088 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
1061 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1044 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
1027 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1359 points
1594 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

569 points
838 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3.6 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
51 W
27% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

828th of 1,089
833rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops
Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

A8-9600 vs Pentium G4520 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-9600 is faster than the Pentium G4520. Despite this, the Pentium G4520 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A8-9600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium G4520 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4520. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G4520 has a slightly higher clock speed than the A8-9600. The Pentium G4520 outputs less heat than A8-9600 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the A8-9600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium G4520

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the A8-9600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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